Tuesday, March 22, 2016

2017 Subaru Impreza Sedan

The production model (Top) is, again, different enough from the recent concept that it pretty much ruins the design.
I mean, the Impreza has been one of the worst looking small sedan for years now.
Everyone is making an effort to stand out a little bit. Improve their design. (Look at the Civic!)

Instead, Subaru is constantly teasing us with decent to great concepts and never ever follows through.
This looks like it came out 10 years ago already. And it's not even out yet.

Inside, things seem better than before and more upscale.

But nothing we haven't seen before. Everywhere. From everyone else....

I actually liked it at first glance. But after a closer look, it looks odd. Almost like Subaru found a thrown out design for a new Acura ILX - after the designer sneezed and realized the swoop after the front fender went south. It just looks odd. I do like the interior. I have a Crosstrek, but think the interior is of high quality, but uninspired! This at least looks like an attempt at a design.

They didn't push the envelope with the styling, but it's not as boring and dated as any Volkswagen, or as ugly as a Prius. Still, the concept was not that radical that they couldn't have gotten a little closer.

Did you expect something else? I mean, the concept car was a copy of the last Impreza concept car, so the production car turns out to be s near copy of the current car. Not a shock, thought they modified the window lube a bit so I guess all the imprezas will look like the WRX now?